Tag: birthdays

Google Celebrates Its Own 15th Birthday With PiƱata Game Doodle, Easter Egg
Google is celebrating its 15tth birthday with a worldwide doodle featuring a playable game where you can hit a piƱata by clicking on it with your mouse (or using the space bar), an...
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Amazon Launches New Facebook-Integrated Crowdsourced Gifting Product
Amazon is looking to move in on Facebook's gifting turf with a new product that lets friends crowdsource each other's gifts using the power of the social network's graph. Amazon...
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LinkedIn Is Ten Years Old
LinkedIn turned ten years old on Sunday. It's hard to believe it's been a decade, but believe it or not, the professional social network launched all the way back in 2003. It has c...
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Gmail Turns 9: Google Takes Us Down Memory Lane, Makes Us Feel Old
Can you believe that Gmail is 9 years old? I haven't felt this old since last week, when Twitter informed me that it was the 19th anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain. Yikes....
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Instagram: Android Users Make Up Nearly Half Our User Base
Today, on its one-year anniversary, Instagram has announced that nearly half of all Instagram use comes from its Android app. After some time as an iOS-only service, Instagram...
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Amazon Appstore Turns 2, Celebrates with Free Apps
Today, we wish Amazon's Appstore a happy 2nd birthday. And Amazon is celebrating with a giveaway. Today, you can grab 18 "app of the day" apps for free. The apps that Amazon is...
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Twitter Turns 7, Boasts 400M Tweets Per Day
Join me in wishing a very happy birthday to Twitter, who turns 7 years old today. Yes, if you were wondering, you can sing the Happy Birthday song in less than 140 characters....
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You Won’t Believe These Facts About Mr. Rogers
Today is the first day of spring. It's still cold here. Stupid spring. It's also the birthday of television legend Fred McFeely Rogers. Mr. Rogers was a wonderful and fascin...
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Kurt Cobain’s Birthday Widely Celebrated In The Twitterverse
Today is Kurt Cobain's birthday. The Nirvana frontman was born on this day in 1967, which would would make him 46 years old, had he not committed suicide. He died on April 5, 1994,...
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Facebook Suggests Starbucks Gifts Inside Birthday Reminders
Facebook may be getting a little more specific with their suggestions for how to properly celebrate your friend's birthday. Soon after launching their new ecommerce platform...
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Firefox Is Now 8 Years Old (Is That All?)
Mozilla is celebrating Firefox's eighth birthday today. It was November 9, 2004, when Mozilla launched the browser. Frankly, I can't believe it's been only eight, but that is...
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Facebook Displays Birthdays on Mobile News Feed to Promote Gifts
Last month, Facebook jumped into the ecommerce arean with the launch of "Gifts," the company's new gift exchange platform. You may remember a "Facebook Gifts" existing years ago,...
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Google Starts Reminding You of People’s Birthdays, Too
If you're the type of person who likes to wish friends a "happy birthday" on social networks, there's a good chance that Facebook's birthday reminders have saved your tail more tha...
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Facebook Updates Events With Impressive New Calendar, List Views
In a move that was a long time coming, Facebook has rolled out an all new events page, complete with two equally useful ways to organize all of your date-specific happenings on the...
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YouTube Celebrates Its Seventh Birthday
YouTube is seven years old. That's less than a decade. It's hard to believe something so ubiquitous as YouTube has been around for such a short span of time, and it demonstrates...
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